Small town guy moves to a big guy town and feels he doesn’t quite belong.

The story behind it:

I must have been 20 or 21 when I decided to live on my own. I wanted to live in the big city and moved to Louvain.
Back then I was listening a lot to Ryan Adams and his earlier band Whiskeytown. Songs like “Jacksonville Skyline” and “My Hometown” were haunting my mind. The lyrics on Pneumonia are amongst of Ryan’s best songs! Sure as hell I didn’t came up with lines as “I was born in abundance of inherited sadness.” but the entire Pneumonia album echoes through this entire song.